Please come take a look at the latest library exhibit!
In honor of the recent National Nurses Week and the 2019 50th Anniversary of the UT Health School of Nursing (SON), a photography exhibit has been installed in the library. The exhibit features photographs from the archives of the Briscoe Library and the SON collection. Note: A number of the photographs discovered in the SON collection while preparing for the 50th Anniversary will become part of the library archival collection making them accessible to a wider audience.
With one exception, all of the photographs on display can generally be identified as circa 1970s and 1980s. Historical photographs often come to library archives unidentified which is the case with some of the photographs on display. Challenge: However, one photograph is distinctly more recent than the others and we think viewers will be able to tell which it is.
For questions about the library archives, please contact Melissa DeThorne at 210-567-2470 or dethorne@uthscsa.edu.
On Friday, May 17, 2019 nursing faculty from Mexico toured the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library. Several works from the rare book collection were on display, including Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing (1859), Ophthalmodouleia (1583) by Georg Bartisch, Anatomical Tables of the Practice of Midwifery (1754) by William Smellie , and De Medicina (1481) by Aulus Cornelius Celsus. Also on display were photographs from the Physicians and Surgeons Hospital Training School for Nurses in San Antonio, which opened its doors in the early 1900’s but was closed in the 1960’s. Photographs from the early years of the School of Nursing were also on display.
For more information about the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library or to schedule a visit, contact Andrea N. Schorr at schorr@uthscsa.edu or (210) 567-2403.
Excerpts from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) travelling exhibit, Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature, coming to the Briscoe Library in early June.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein reflected the interest of early 19th-century physicians and natural philosophers in human dissection and experiments on animals, as they explored the possibilities for generating life, resuscitating the drowned and the newly dead, and reanimating dead tissue using electricity. These researchers sought to benefit humankind and to end death and disease through their investigations into “the secrets of nature.”
The myth of Frankenstein continues to resonate into and beyond the 20th century as science and technology gain ascendancy in American social and cultural life. Although many individuals welcome the changes caused by scientific advances, some worry about society’s ability to retain control of technologies that challenge their understanding of what it means to be human. Mary Shelley’s story offers a compelling framework for the public to articulate its uneasiness about scientific ambition and the nature of scientific responsibility.
Watch for the next NLM exhibit, expected to be on display by the end of June,
Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons.
This exhibition was produced by the National Library of Medicine , National Institutes of Health.
Accompanied by owner, librarian Andrea Schorr, Angel made her appearance during the Coffee Cookies and Canines event for students on May 8th.
Angel is a certified therapy dog and is available for other campus visits along with her partner June. For more information on booking this library therapy dog team for your event, contact Andrea Schorr at 210-567-2440/schorr@uthscsa.edu or Dana Whitmire at 210-567-2464/whitmired@uthscsa.edu.
Trying to figure out which journal to publish in? SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR) can help you decide!
SJR is based on prestige from a journal to another, using current year citations to the source items published in that journal during the previous three years. SJR, a counterpart to Impact Factors, is freely available through the SCImago website. Find out more information on the Impact Factors and Other Metrics libguide.
Quick view of Impact Factor vs SJR:
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Definition |
Citations to a journal in the JCR year to items published in the previous two years, divided by the total number of citable items (articles and reviews) published in the journal in the previous two years. |
Average number of weighted citations received in a year, by articles published in a journal in the previous 3 years. |
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Source |
InCites Journal Citation Reports (JCR) – drawing on the data in Web of Science |
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Citation Impact |
Prestige |
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Availability |
Subscription access via JCR |
Freely available via SCImago website |
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Journal titles |
11,500+ |
34,000+ |
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How is it calculated? |
The number of citations of articles published in the source journal in the preceding two years divided by the number of items published in that journal in the previous two years. |
Iterative process based on transfer of prestige from a journal to another, using current year citations to the source items published in that journal during the previous three years |
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Citations included |
All document types (including editorials) |
Articles, conference papers and reviews |
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Documents included |
Articles and reviews |
Articles, conference papers and reviews |
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Interdisciplinary comparisons |
Not useful for comparing disciplines. You should only compare Impact Factors for journals in the same field. |
Yes. The rank has been normalized to account for differences between the disciplines |
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For a list of the newest titles at the Briscoe Library click here.
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